Paul Mazursky

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Paul Mazursky (2008)

Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky (born April 25, 1930 in New York City , New York - † June 30, 2014 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American director , screenwriter , actor and film producer . He was considered an important representative of American auteur films . Many of his films are set in New York. He often kept an eye on the lives and fates of simple people, for example in his cheerfully melancholy film A Hair in the Soup from 1976.

Life

Mazursky was born in Brooklyn , New York , and worked as a screenwriter, director, film producer and actor.

He was first active as an actor, in Stanley Kubrick's first film Fear and Desire and in The Seeds of Violence , moved to California and worked for The Second City Comedy Revue , then for The Danny Kaye Show . Meanwhile, he and Larry Tucker wrote the pilot for The Monkees series and a script called H-Bomb Beach Party , which was optioned but not produced. After the Danny Kaye Show ended , they shared an office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and wrote the script Let Me Kiss Your Butterfly , which Mazursky's agent passed on to Peter Sellers.

In 1969, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice made his feature film debut as a director. Since 1973 he has produced many of his films himself.

During his career Mazursky has been nominated five times for an Oscar , including once with his colleague Larry Tucker , with whom he worked on several projects. In 1979 he received the Bodil film award in the category of best non-European film for his film Eine unmarriedete Frau . In 2010 Mazursky was recognized by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for Lifetime Achievement .

Twice - in 1970 and 1979 - he was honored for Best Screenplay by the National Society of Film Critics , and three times he received the New York Film Critics Circle Award . The Writers Guild of America honored him in 1970 for his screenplay for Bob & Caroline & Ted & Alice .

Paul Mazursky died of cardiovascular failure in Los Angeles on June 30, 2014 at the age of 84 .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Mazursky in Tales from the Script . Eds. Peter Hanson, Paul Robert Herman. 1st edition. HarperCollins Publishers, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-185592-4 , p. 6.
  2. ↑ US film director Paul Mazursky has died. Obituary. Deutsche Welle , July 1, 2014, accessed July 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Mazursky, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mazursky, Irwin Lawrence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2014
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States